Authors whose first name starts with J, page 6 of 26

James Harper writes action thrillers. The catalogue lists 37 books between Fallen Angel (2011) and Blood Runs Cold (2026), grouped into the Evan Buckley series, the Angel & Kincade mysteries and Dixie Killer Blues. Bad Call and Bad To The Bones both appeared in 2014. No subject headings are recorded for the catalogue, and Harper is credited alone on all 37 titles.

James Hayman writes police procedurals. One series is recorded, McCabe & Savage Thriller, and the six catalogued books run from 2009 to 2018: The Cutting (2009), The Chill of Night (2010), Darkness First (2013), The Girl in the Glass (2015), The Girl on the Bridge (2017) and A Fatal Obsession (2018). Murder investigation, violent crime against women and personality disorder supply the subject matter, at a median of 376 pages.

James Henry writes police procedurals set in England. Subjects recorded against the 8 catalogued books name Jack Frost and Nick Lowry as fictitious characters, alongside murder, investigation, missing persons and crime. First Frost (2011) opens the listing, followed by Fatal Frost (2012), Morning Frost (2013), Blackwater (2016), Frost at Midnight (2017), Yellowhammer (2018), Whitethroat (2021) and The Winter Visitor (2024). Two series stand under the name: Detective Jack Frost Prequel and DI Nick Lowry.

James Herbert

25 books• 3 series

James Herbert (1943-2013) was an English horror writer. The Rats (1974) opened the catalogue and gave its name to a series about mutated rats, continued in Lair (1979) and Domain (1983). The Fog (1975), The Survivor (1976), Fluke (1977), The Spear (1978) and The Dark (1980) followed in quick succession. Haunted houses and ghosts run through the later work, where David Ash is Herbert's recurring character. Twenty-five titles are catalogued, closing with Ash in 2012. Herbert designed his own covers and publicity, and the books have sold 54 million copies in 34 languages.

James Herriot wrote about veterinary practice in the English countryside, mixing memoir, anecdote and animal stories. The catalogue holds 39 titles published between 1970 and 2023, among them All Creatures Great and Small (1972), All Things Bright and Beautiful (1974) and the 2023 collection The Wonderful World of James Herriot. All Creatures Great and Small is the best known sequence, and Herriot also wrote children's books such as Bonny's Big Day. The books are short at a median of 180 pages, and the catalogue is closed.

James Hilton (1900-1954) was a British-American novelist and screenwriter. Lost Horizon (1933) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1934) are his best remembered novels, with Random Harvest beside them; the schoolmaster books draw on English public schools, and Murder At School (1931) on detective fiction. Hilton also co-wrote the screenplays for Camille (1936) and Mrs. Miniver (1942), the second of which won him an Academy Award. Twenty titles are catalogued, starting at Catherine Herself (1920).

James Holland is a historian, writer and broadcaster whose catalogued books carry subject tags for the Second World War, the Burma campaigns and the Royal Air Force. Holland co-founded the Chalke Valley History Festival and serves as its Programme Director, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has a collection at the Imperial War Museum. The catalogue lists 42 books from Fortress Malta (2003) to The Visionaries (2026), including The Battle of Britain (2010) and Dunkirk (2011). Holland series include Sergeant Jack Tanner, Duty Calls and War in the West.

James Howard Kunstler

33 books• 2 series

James Howard Kunstler is an American writer, social critic and public speaker whose non-fiction examines urban development, suburbanisation and energy. Born in New York City, Kunstler built a reputation on critiques of American suburban building and on forecasts of social change driven by resource limits. The catalogue holds 33 books from The Wampanaki Tales (1979) to Look, I'm Gone (2025), taking in A Clown in the Moonlight (1981), The Life of Byron Jaynes (1983), An Embarrassment of Riches (1985) and Blood Solstice (1986). World Made by Hand and Jeff Greenaway are the two series headings, and subject tags name architecture and society, economic history, environmental disasters and dystopias.

James Hunt is credited with 91 books between 2014 and 2026, from Broken Lines to The Runaways. Series in the listing include EMP Survivor, EMP Post Apocalyptic Survival, Grid-Down Prepper Thriller, World War IV, Agent Hill and GMO 24. Mystery series include North and Martin Abduction Mystery, Lockhart Missing Person Mystery and Lindsy and Mike Foster Paranormal Mystery. Hunt is still releasing books.

James Islington is an Australian author of high fantasy, born around 1981. The Licanius Trilogy is his first sequence, made up of The Shadow of What Was Lost (2014), An Echo of Things to Come (2017) and The Light of All That Falls (2019). Hierarchy followed, opening with The Will of the Many (2023) and continuing in The Strength of the Few (2025) and Scion (2026). Six books in total, and Islington is still publishing.

James J. Butcher writes fantasy. Three books are catalogued: Dead Man's Hand and Long Past Dues, both published in 2023, and Cold Iron Task in 2025. The run remains in progress.

James J.S. Carol writes thrillers and suspense, with Jefferson Winter as the recurring character the catalogue records. Recorded subjects include private investigators, serial murderers, psychopaths, abduction and murder. Nine books carry the credit, from Broken Dolls (2014) to 17 Church Row (2019), among them Watch Me (2014), Hush Little Baby (2015), Prey (2015), Presumed Guilty (2017) and The Quiet Man (2017). Two titles appeared under the name J.S. Carol: The Killing Game (2016) and Kiss Me, Kill Me (2018). A Jefferson Winter short stories and novellas grouping is catalogued alongside.

James Jones

14 books• 1 series

James Jones, born in 1921 and died in 1977, was an American novelist who wrote about the Second World War and what it left behind. From Here to Eternity, his debut, won the National Book Award in 1952, was filmed the following year, that film took the Academy Award for Best Picture, and was later made into a television series. The Thin Red Line (1962) and Whistle (1978) complete his World War II Trilogy. Fourteen titles are catalogued, from 1951 to 2011, including Some Came Running, The Pistol and the reportage of Viet Journal.

James Joyce

21 books

Chamber Music (1907) opens a James Joyce catalogue of 21 titles. Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic who contributed to the modernist movement. Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Ulysses (1922) follow, the last of them tracking the episodes of Homer's Odyssey through shifting literary styles. The listing reaches Finn's Hotel (2013) and takes in manuscript facsimiles and correspondence alongside the fiction.

James Kaine has 9 catalogued books, published between 2022 and 2026 at an average gap of 0.5 years. Pursuit (2022) opens the run and The Final Final Girl (2026) is the newest entry. The catalogue groups three headings under the name: American Horrors, My Pet Werewolf and a set of standalone novels. My Pet Werewolf (2023), Black Friday (2024), Gunther (2024), The Dead Children's Playground (2024), Devil of the Pines (2025), Mischief Night (2025) and Rideshare (2026) fill out the listing. No subject headings are recorded.

James Kavanagh writes regional nature identification guides. The catalogue lists 273 Kavanagh guides published between 1991 and 2022, beginning with California Trees & Wildflowers (1991) and ending with Eastern Coastal Birds (2022). Individual guides cover birds, butterflies, moths, trees, wildflowers and seashore life, usually for a single state or region. The median guide runs 12 pages. No new Kavanagh title has appeared since 2022.

James Kelman

29 books• 1 series

James Kelman is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist, born in 1946. Kelman's fiction renders the inner mental life of mostly working-class narrators and their struggles with authority and social dealings, largely in Glasgow, and often works through stream of consciousness. A Disaffection was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and took the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 1989. The catalogue holds 29 titles published between 1973 and 2024, from An Old Pub Near the Angel (1973) to All We Have Is the Story (2024), and it carries plays and essays as well as novels and story collections. The 1990s are the busiest decade.

James Kipling published 24 books from 2013 to 2019 in the Alaska Mysteries and Green File series. Killed / The Card Counter (2013) and The Dart Murders (2013) are the earliest titles. Many later books carry one-word titles, including Hunted (2014), Kidnapped (2015), Haunted (2017) and Missing (2017). A Cold Trail (2019) is the last book listed.

James L. Cambias is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, and a tabletop game designer. Billion Worlds is the series in the catalogue, and recorded subjects run to diplomacy, extraterrestrial beings, human-alien encounters, life on other planets, deep diving and guerrilla warfare. Twelve books are listed from Diagram of Rapture (2000) to The Ishtar Deception (2026), taking in A Darkling Sea (2014), Corsair (2015), Arkad's World (2019), The Godel Operation (2021) and The Scarab Mission (2023).

James L. Haley

21 books• 2 series

James L. Haley, born December 14, 1951, is an American writer on Texas and Western history who has also published novels. Haley grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, attended L. D. Bell High School in Hurst, graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington in political science, and left the University of Texas School of Law after two years to write full time. Two Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, in 2002 and 2011, sit among the honours. The catalogue lists 21 books from The Buffalo War (1976) to Captain Putnam for the Republic of Texas (2021), with Apaches (1981) and Sam Houston (2002) among them, and names the Bliven Putnam Naval Adventure and Bridwell Texas History series.

James L. Nelson

34 books• 6 series

Ships and sea warfare are James L. Nelson's material. Nelson writes naval historical fiction across the Isaac Biddlecomb novels of the American Revolution, the Thomas Marlowe books, the Samuel Bowater series, the Norsemen Saga and Blood, Steel, and Empire. Ship captains, naval operations and pirates recur throughout. Thirty-four catalogued titles run from By Force of Arms (1996) to Hispaniola Gold (2026).

James L. Rubart writes Christian fiction, including Christian fantasy and paranormal fiction, with 10 catalogued books from 2010 to 2019. Well Spring is the named series. Rooms and Book of Days (2010) are the earliest titles, followed by The Chair (2011), Soul's Gate (2012), Memory's Door (2013) and Spirit Bridge (2014). The Five Times I Met Myself (2015), The Long Journey to Jake Palmer (2016) and The Man He Never Was (2018) come later, and The Pages of Her Life (2019) is the newest. Subject headings include faith, miracles, memory, widowers and Seattle.

James L. Thane writes police procedurals and detective fiction, with serial murder investigation, kidnapping, missing persons and the city of Phoenix, Arizona in the recorded subjects. Two series carry the Thane name, Sean Richardson and the Flathead Valley Mystery books. The eight catalogued titles begin with No Place to Die (2010) and end with A Shot to the Heart (2023), taking in Fatal Blow (2018), South of the Deuce (2020) and Picture Me Gone (2022).

James Lear writes gay erotica and mystery fiction, and the catalogue lists 11 books from 2001 to 2018. Two series appear under the name: Mitch Mitchell Mystery and Dan Stagg Mystery. The Low Road (2001) is the first book, followed by The Palace Of Varieties (2003), The Back Passage (2006), Hot Valley (2007) and The Secret Tunnel (2008). A Sticky End (2010), The Hardest Thing (2013), Straight Up (2015), The Sun Goes Down (2016) and While My Wife's Away (2017) come later, and In the Ring (2018) is the newest. Subject tags include gay men, murder, suspense, action and adventure, history and Scotland.

Dave Robicheaux, a Louisiana detective, is the figure most associated with James Lee Burke, who also writes the Holland family novels around Billy Bob, Hackberry and Weldon Holland. Burke's 49 catalogued books stretch from Half of Paradise (1965) to The Hadacol Boogie in 2026, a span of six decades. Hard-boiled crime in Louisiana and Texas is the core subject. Median length is 387 pages, with the 2000s as the peak decade.

James Leonard writes westerns. The catalogue holds 56 books published between 2020 and 2026, from No Escape For Outlaws to The Snow Debt, a dense run for six years, and it continues. Two series organise the list: Southwest Saga and Pioneer Western. Titles state their subject plainly, as with A Lone Sheriff, Bullets Fly Fast, Cowboys Never Die and The First to Draw, and turn on sheriffs, outlaws and frontier honour.

James Lovegrove

75 books• 17 series

James Lovegrove, born 1965, is a British writer of speculative fiction. Catalogue subjects cover science fiction, fantasy, horror and mystery, including Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The listing holds 75 books from The Hope (1990) to Fantastic Four: The Coming of Galactus Prose Novel (2025). Series credited to Lovegrove include Age of.../ Pantheon, Redlaw, Dev Harmer Mission, Cthulhu Casebooks and 5 Lords of Pain. Escardy Gap (1996), Days (1997) and The Foreigners (2000) are among the earlier titles.

James M. Cain

25 books

James M. Cain (1892–1977) stands at the origin of hardboiled American crime fiction. The novelist, journalist and screenwriter wrote The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), Double Indemnity (1936), Serenade (1937), Mildred Pierce (1941) and The Butterfly (1947), and Hollywood filmed the first three of those between 1944 and 1946. Greed, guilt, murder and insurance fraud drive the plots. 25 books are catalogued under Cain's name, the latest a 2024 noir collection.

James Mace writes historical military fiction, much of it Roman. The Artorian Chronicles and Artorian Dynasty cover the empire, while the Great Jewish Revolt and Year of the Four Emperors sequences take particular conflicts and the Anglo-Zulu War books sit apart from the Roman material. The catalogue lists 37 books from Heir to Rebellion (2009) to Broadswords over England (2026), at a median of 333 pages.

James Martin writes cookery books. Eighteen catalogued titles run from The Deli Cookbook in 2000 to James Martin's French Adventure in 2017, covering British food, desserts, quick and easy cooking and delicatessen fare, with Saturday Kitchen Cookbook (2007) and James Every Day (2008) among them. Driven, published in 2008, turns to motoring, and a strand of autobiography sits beside the recipes.

Fantasy is James Maxwell's genre: magic, shapeshifting, kings and princesses, and wars fought across invented lands. The Evermen Saga opens the catalogue with Enchantress (2012) and continues through The Hidden Relic (2014), The Lore of the Evermen (2014) and The Path of the Storm (2014); Shifting Tides follows with Golden Age (2016), Silver Road (2016), Copper Chain (2017) and Iron Will (2018). The Firewall Trilogy and Gateway Saga complete 15 books, which reach Fate and Fortune (2026). Volumes run long, at a median of 484 pages.

James McBride

9 books

James McBride, born September 11, 1957, is an American writer and musician. McBride's novel The Good Lord Bird received the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction. The catalogue lists 9 McBride books, starting with The Color of Water (1996) and continuing with Miracle at St. Anna (2001), Song Yet Sung (2008), The Good Lord Bird (2013), Kill 'em and Leave (2016), Five-Carat Soul (2017), Deacon King Kong (2020) and The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (2023). Subjects include race identity, African Americans, fugitive slaves and mothers.

James McClure wrote the Kramer and Zondi Mystery police procedurals, set in South Africa, with Trompie Kramer and Mickey Zondi as the recorded fictional characters. The Steam Pig (1971) opens the catalogue of 15 books, followed by The Caterpillar Cop (1972) and The Gooseberry Fool (1974). The Sunday Hangman (1977) and The Blood of an Englishman (1980) are later titles. God It Was Fun (2014) is the last catalogued book.

James McGee is an English novelist known for historical adventure novels about Matthew Hawkwood, a fictional Bow Street Runner. McGee was born in Kent and, as an army child, grew up in Gibraltar, Germany and Northern Ireland, later working in banking, newspapers and bookselling. Six titles dated 2006 to 2017 sit under the name: Ratcatcher, also listed as Hawkwood (2006), Resurrectionist (2007), Rapscallion (2008), Rebellion (2011), The Blooding (2014) and The Reckoning (2017). Matthew Hawkwood is recorded as both the series and the recurring character. Subjects record London history, body snatching and prisoners of war.

James Morcan has 24 books catalogued from 2011 to 2020, beginning with The Ninth Orphan (2011). The Orphan Factory (2012), The Orphan Uprising (2013) and The Orphan Conspiracies (2014) follow the same naming. James Morcan series are Orphan Trilogy, World Duology, Deniables and Underground Knowledge. Genius Intelligence and Antigravity Propulsion are among the other titles. Anno 2020 is the most recent listed book.

James N. Cook writes fiction with subjects including zombies, the end of the world, imaginary wars and horror. The catalogue lists 16 books starting with No Easy Hope (2011). This Shattered Land (2012), Savages (2015) and Storm of Ghosts (2017) follow, and The Hellbreakers appeared in 2018. Cook's series are Hellbreakers and Path of Violence, and the newest title is Path of Violence 2: Conquest (2026).

James O. Born writes crime thrillers, drawing detail and dialogue from a career in law enforcement. Walking Money (2004) opens the catalogue and was shortlisted for the Barry Award; Escape Clause, the third novel, took the gold medal in the first Florida Book Award. Bill Tasker and Alex Duarte head the two series. Eight books are catalogued through Putin's Gambit (2017), with Florida police work, undercover operations and murder investigation as recurring subjects. Born also co-writes novels with James Patterson.

James Oakes is an American historian of slavery in the United States, and took the 2008 Lincoln Prize for The Radical and the Republican, a study of Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln and the politics of antislavery. The historical work in the catalogue begins with Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders (1982) and continues through Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South (1990), Freedom National (2012), The Scorpion's Sting (2014) and The Crooked Path to Abolition (2021). Subject headings name slaveholders, antislavery movements, emancipation, capitalism and the social conditions of the Southern states. The books reach a median of 307 pages.

James Oliver Curwood

45 books• 2 series

James Oliver Curwood (June 12, 1878 - August 13, 1927) was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. Curwood set many books in the Hudson Bay region, the Yukon or Alaska, and Publishers Weekly placed them among the top-ten US best sellers in the early and mid 1920s. At least 180 films draw on Curwood's novels and short stories. At death, Curwood was the world's highest-paid author per word. The catalogue holds 45 titles, beginning with The Wolf Hunters and The Courage of Captain Plum in 1908, and includes the Kazan and Baree series. Subjects include wolves, dogs, bears, mounted police and gold mining in Canada.

James Oswald

25 books• 5 series

James Oswald is a Scottish writer and farmer. Two sequences define the catalogue: the Inspector McLean crime novels, set in Edinburgh, and the Ballad of Sir Benfro fantasy series, published under the name J. D. Oswald. Oswald self-published at first, moved to Penguin Books, and from 2018 has been published by Wildfire, where the Inspector McLean run continued and DC Constance Fairchild arrived as a new lead. 25 books are catalogued, from Dreamwalker (2012) to The Violent Hour (2026). Dragons, magic, murder and investigation carry the subject tags.

James P. Blaylock is an American fantasy author, born in Long Beach, California on 20 September 1950, and one of the writers who started the steampunk genre. Blaylock names H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle as influences, took an M.A. in English at California State University, Fullerton in 1974, and teaches creative writing at Chapman University. The Elfin Ship (1982) opens a 35-book catalogue that reaches The Gobblin' Society in 2020, through the Balumnia Trilogy, the Narbondo books, the Christian Trilogy and the Ghosts Trilogy. Langdon St. Ives is the recurring character on record.

James P. Hogan

34 books• 8 series

James P. Hogan (1941-2010) was a British science fiction writer. The Giants sequence is his major work, five novels published between 1977 and 2005 and opening with Inherit the Stars (1977). Artificial intelligence, time travel, space colonies and human-alien encounters supply the material across the rest, including The Genesis Machine, Thrice Upon a Time, Voyage From Yesteryear and Code of the Lifemaker. Thirty-nine titles close with Migration (2010).

James P. Sumner writes action thrillers. The 20 catalogued books open in 2014 with True Conviction, also issued as Crucible, alongside Hunter's Games and One Last Bullet, and close with Time To Die (2023). Series include Adrian Hell, GlobaTech, Roach, the Warlock Prophecies and Thrillerverse Events. Nothing has followed 2023.

James Patrick Hunt wrote 17 catalogued books between 2005 and 2017, in the police procedural and crime field. Series under the Hunt name are Lieutenant George Hastings, Evan Maitland and Dan Bridger. Before They Make You Run (2005) is the first title, and Maitland came out the same year, followed by Maitland Under Siege (2006) and Maitland's Reply (2009). Recorded subjects include police, St. Louis, judges, bounty hunters, fugitives, organized crime and antique dealers. Bridger (2010), The Silent Places (2010) and Bullet Beth (2011) are also listed, and The German (2017) is the last.

James Patterson

510 books• 73 series

James Patterson, born on March 22, 1947, is an American writer whose catalogue here holds 514 books published from 1976 to 2027. The run opens with The Thomas Berryman Number (1976), and Along Came a Spider (1992) and Kiss the Girls (1995) follow later. Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, Maximum Ride, Daniel X, Witch & Wizard, NYPD Red, Private, Middle School and the Women's Murder Club are among the Patterson series, alongside standalone thrillers, non-fiction and romance. Marshall Karp shares the credit on 5 of the books. Patterson's sales exceed 425 million copies, and Patterson was the first person to sell one million e-books. Forbes ranked Patterson the highest-paid author in 2016, for a third year running, and the National Book Foundation gave Patterson the Literarian Award in November 2015. 27 Stars is scheduled for 2027.

James Ponti writes mystery and adventure fiction for readers in grades 3 to 5. The catalogue lists 38 books between 1992 and 2027, starting with Hollywood East: Florida's Fabulous Flicks (1992) and reaching Operation Oz, scheduled for 2027. City Spies, Dead City, the Sherlock Society and the Florian Bates T.O.A.S.T. mysteries are the series recorded. Early entries include junior novelizations, among them Around the World in 80 Days Jr. Novel (2004) and The Santa Clause 3: Escape Clause (2006).

James Preller writes for readers in grades 1 to 3, and the Jigsaw Jones Mysteries are the core of the list: most titles begin The Case of, from The Case of Hermie the Missing Hamster (1998) to The Case of the Hat Burglar (2019). Preller worked as a copywriter at Scholastic before publishing his first book in 1986, and has used the pen names Mitzy Kafka, James Patrick and Izzy Bonkers. Bystander and Six Innings sit outside the mystery series. The 38 catalogued books run to a median of 74 pages.

James R. Benn, born in 1949, is an American author of historical crime fiction. The Billy Boyle World War II Mysteries form Benn's main sequence, putting the investigator Billy Boyle on murder cases inside the 1939-1945 war. Benn's catalogue holds 26 books dated 2000 to 2026, from the debut Desperate Ground to The Ninth Circle, with standalone novels alongside the series.

James R. Hannibal has 14 catalogued books from 2010 to 2024, with subject tags covering suspense thrillers, fantasy and children's fiction. Hannibal's series are Nick Baron, Section 13, Lightraider Academy and Talia Inger. Titles include Shadow Catcher (2013), The Lost Property Office (2016), The Gryphon Heist (2019) and The Paris Betrayal (2021). Lion Warrior (2024) is the most recent entry.

James Reasoner writes westerns and frontier fiction, and the 193 catalogued books run from Texas Wind (1980) to Blood on the Border (2026). Civil War history, Texas and military fiction also appear among the subjects. Reasoner's series include Stagecoach Station, Abilene, Cody's Law, Wind River, Outlaw Ranger, Tales From Deadwood and the Walker, Texas Ranger tie-ins. Lee Goldberg, William Rabkin and Livia Reasoner are each co-credited on 1 book.

The Celestine Prophecy (1993) is what James Redfield is known for: an adventure parable about a found manuscript and spiritual awakening. Redfield, born in 1950, is an American writer, lecturer, screenwriter and film producer. Nine catalogued books run to 2011, among them The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (1996), The Celestine Vision (1997), The Secret of Shambhala (1999) and The Twelfth Insight: The Hour of Decision (2011), plus an account of the film adaptation. New Age spirituality, travel and millennialism run through them, at a median of 256 pages.

James Renner

16 books

Born in 1978, James Renner is an American writer and investigative journalist who has also worked as a producer and director. Renner was a Cleveland Scene reporter before editing The Cleveland Independent, an alternative newspaper. Renner's catalogue covers true crime, science fiction and thrillers, from Amy: My Search for Her Killer (2006) and The Serial Killer's Apprentice (2008) to The Man from Primrose Lane (2012). The Porchlight Project, a nonprofit Renner set up in 2019, helps families of people who are missing or were murdered. A Cruise to Nowhere (2026) is the newest title.

James Riley

16 books• 4 series

James Riley, born in 1977, writes fantasy for readers in grades 3 to 5. Story Thieves is the best known series, opening in 2015 and continuing through The Stolen Chapters (2016), Secret Origins (2017) and Pick the Plot (2018). Half Upon a Time (2010) opens the catalogue and its own trilogy, and the Revenge of Magic, Once Upon Another Time and The Dragon's Apprentice follow. Sixteen books are catalogued through 2025, with fairy tales, magic, monsters and books about books as recurring subjects.

James Robertson is a Scottish writer whose 26 catalogued titles run from 1991 to 2021. Close and Other Stories (1991) is the first. Other titles include The Fanatic (2001), Joseph Knight (2003), Stirling Sonnets (2001), Scottish Ghost Stories (1996) and News of the Dead (2021). Robertson also has an Itchy Coo series. Subject headings cover Scotland and its history, short stories, children's fiction and English poetry.

James Rollins

48 books• 10 series

James Rollins is the pen name of James Paul Czajkowski, an American writer born August 20, 1961, who gave up a veterinary practice in Sacramento, California to write full time. Rollins writes action-adventure, mystery and techno-thriller novels, often set underground or underwater, drawing on experience as an amateur caver and certified scuba diver. The catalogue opens with Subterranean (1999) and Excavation (2000), counts 49 books through Trust No One (2026), and lists Into the Serpent's Nest for 2027. Series include Sigma Force, the Order of the Sanguines, Tucker Wayne and Jake Ransom. Under a second pen name, James Clemens, Czajkowski publishes fantasy.

James Rosone writes military thrillers and speculative war fiction. Modern and near-future conflict supplies the material: World War III, Red Storm, Soviet Endgame, Battlefield Korea, Battlefield Ukraine and Battlefield China sit alongside the Monroe Doctrine, Rise of the Republic and Falling Empires series. Fifty-eight books span 2010 to 2026, from Dinner with a Terrorist to Baltic Breach.

James Rouch is credited with 13 books between 1979 and 2013, and World War III is the subject tag on the catalogue record. Rouch's series are Zone and WWII Collection. The first title is Gateway to Hell (1979), followed by Blind Fire, Hard Target, Hunter Killer and Sky Strike. War Machines (2013) is the most recent entry.

James Runcie, born 7 May 1959, is a British novelist, documentary filmmaker, television producer and playwright, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a visiting professor at Bath Spa University. From 2016 to 2020 Runcie served as Commissioning Editor for Arts on BBC Radio 4. The catalogue holds 14 books, from The Colour of Heaven (2000) and The Discovery of Chocolate (2001) through Canvey Island (2006) and East Fortune (2009) to The Great Passion (2022). Sidney Chambers titles run from Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death (2012) to Sidney Chambers and the Persistence of Love (2017), and Grantchester Mysteries is the listed series. Clergy, murder, England and the 1950s appear in the subjects.

The Expanse is the work James S.A. Corey is catalogued for: space opera built on interplanetary voyages, space warfare and conspiracy. Leviathan Wakes (2011) opens it, followed by Caliban's War (2012), Abaddon's Gate (2013) and Cibola Burn (2014), with novellas such as The Butcher of Anderson Station, Drive and Gods of Risk between them. Corey also wrote the Star Wars novel Razor's Edge (2013) and has started the Captive's War series. Twenty-nine titles are catalogued, reaching The Faith of Beasts in 2026.

James Sallis, who lived from 1944 to 2026, was an American crime writer, poet, science fiction writer and biographer. The Lew Griffin novels, set in New Orleans, follow a detective through a series that opens with The Long-Legged Fly (1992); Drive, published in 2005, became a film of the same name in 2011. Sallis also wrote about music, starting the catalogue with The Guitar Players: One Instrument and Its Masters in American Music (1982). Thirty-eight titles are catalogued in all.